catches Hillary Clinton engaging in some revisionism about her position on same-sex marriage, but doesn’t get the timeline right himself. According to Morris, she claims that she supported her husband’s signing of the Defense of Marriage Act only to stave off a constitutional amendment against same-sex marriage. Morris points out, accurately, that no such amendment was being discussed at the time (the law was signed in 1996). He says that it was Vermont’s “civil unions” statute that inspired the law. That’s not true: Vermont’s high court ordered the state to enact civil unions in 1999, three years after the law was signed. The impetus for DOMA came from other court decisions (notably Hawaii’s), and from the Supreme Court’s Romer decision that year, which seemed to some DOMA backers to be putting the courts behind gay rights in a way they found objectionable.